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My mother accidentally put mosquito repellant in my eyes as a child (my father had put it in an eye dropper to carry hunting and didn't label the bottle) To th
by wing-_-nuts 5y ago
My mother accidentally put mosquito repellant in my eyes as a child (my father had put it in an eye dropper to carry hunting and didn't label the bottle)
To this day anything that messes with my eyes freaks me out. That little puffer thing at the eye doctor? That thing is my nemesis. I won't wear contacts. Lasik is out of the question because on top of this phobia I also have CP and I get super spastic when stressed.
Having to get monthly injections in my eyeball would be pure nightmare fuel for me. I'm not sure which I'd fear more, that, or going blind.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI sympathize, that must be terrible. Your story reminds me of something my wife did a long time ago. She wanted to put sunscreen on our baby daughter's face, and she had the bright idea to blow in her face so she'd close her eyes, and then quickly spritz with the spray. That worked out exactly like you are probably thinking. Fortunately there doesn't seem to be a resulting phobia, 11 years on.
- deepspace 5y agoOh god, the puffer. Pure torture. I tried contacts many years ago, and after two months of struggling, it still took me over an hour every day to get them in, so I gave up on that. I still remember the day I first heard about Radial Keratotomy in the 70s. I could not imagine how anybody could consciously allow a scalpel anywhere near their eyeball. Even today with LASIK/PRK, the whole idea of voluntary eye surgery is just a total nope for me.